Polling to elect 230 member assembly in Madhya Pradesh began Wednesday morning where the ruling BJP and opposition Congress are fighting for supremacy.

Polling across on 227 seats out of 230 will be held between 8 am and 5 pm, while in three assembly segments – Lanji, Paraswada, and Baihar – in the Naxal-affected Balaghat district, voting time is between 7 am to 3 pm.

The battle of ballots in Madhya Pradesh is just months ahead of the Lok Sabha polls slated in the first half of 2019. That is the reason many Political Scholars is considering the Madhya Pradesh Election as the semi-final before the mega battle of Lok Sabha 2019.

As many as 2,899 candidates, including 1,094 independents, are in the electoral race for the 230 seats, but the main contest is between the Congress and BJP — the Biggies in Madhya Pradesh Elections.

The state has 5.04 crore eligible voters. According to the final electoral roll, the state has 5,04,95,251 voters – 2,63,01,300 males, 2,41,30,390 females, 1,389 third gender and 62,172 postal electors.

State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) V L Kantha Rao in a Press Conference on Tuesday said that ‘Around 3,00,782 government employees, including 45,904 women, have been deployed on poll duty across the state, where 65,341 polling stations have been set up.

The CEO said 17,000 of these polling booths have been declared ‘sensitive’ and additional vigil will be maintained there.

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